IUCN Status: Vulnerable
EPBC Threat Rating: High/Very High
IUCN Claim: “Predation by feral cats may also be a threat.’”
Rock rats among small mammals negatively correlated with cat occupancy (Stobo-Wilson et al. 2020a).
No studies
Cats have been documented among a range of ecological variables
negatively correlated with Arnhem Land rock rats. Causality cannot be
inferred due to confounding variables.
Stobo-Wilson, A. M., et al. “Bottom-up and top-down processes influence contemporary patterns of mammal species richness in Australia’s monsoonal tropics.” Biological Conservation 247 (2020): 108638.
Wallach et al. 2023 In Submission